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Some here may be interested in reading an interview with Professor Ronald Hutton in Pagan Dawn, where he discusses (among other things) his work with the EH Board of Trustees, and pagan interpretation and use of ancient sites. http://www.pagandawnmag.org/professor-ronald-hutton-reframing-modern-paga...

I've no idea of the back-story of this at all. Who's responsible, whether it's vandalism, brandalism, or just a coating... but...

https://twitter.com/m_law/status/545479 ... 04/photo/1

sigh...

Edit: mystery solved: "no no, sorry poor photo, it's two hay bales stacked away from the monument"

Last year, we took part in the Day of Archaeology project at http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/ Sadly I was deskbound this year and not involved in anything heritage or archaeology based so didn't take part, other than to read the almost constant flow of posts - some of which have been very inspiring ...

This project looks like it might be worth keeping an eye on over the coming months...

http://publicarchaeology2015.wordpress. ... 015-about/

As regular readers will know, I often drive out on Bank Holiday weekends to take a look at various heritage attractions within an hour or so's drive from North London. This weekend, I drove up to Buckinghamshire to take a look at the confluence of two major Neolithic tracks: the Icknield Way, and th...

I suspect this is one of those things that requires perseverance. The fact that so much is redacted suggests that there's something they don't want you to know, so keep pushing!

A new road which campaigners tried to have rerouted to save the site of a Bronze Age burial monument has won planning permission. A dig ahead of work starting on the Great Western Park estate in Didcot, Oxfordshire, discovered humans had lived on the site for 9,000 years. The Eastern link road, app...

http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org/ offers the chance to transcribe index cards which describe Bronze Age objects, or to trace photographs of Bronze Age objects with a view to later being able to made 3D printed replicas of those objects. This is very labour intensive work - to do the job properly I...

...and there's a multi-page article in the latest Crrent Archaeology magazine.

Looks good. Please let us know what response you get. There should be a same/next day acknowledgement, then a full response within a set timeframe (21 days?)